Acceptance tests in BDD with Gherkin

Cucumber is a software tool that computer programmers use for testing other software. It runs automated acceptance tests written in a behavior-driven development (BDD) style. Cucumber is written in the Ruby programming language.

Gherkin is the language that Cucumber uses to define test cases. It is designed to be non-technical and human readable, and collectively describes use cases relating to a software system. Gherkin is a structured language it follows some syntax. Gherkin contains a set of keywords which define different premise of the scenario.